Automotive Law

Butzel Long is the nation's premier law firm within the American automotive industry.

Dozens of our attorneys focus on automotive matters. Our Global Automotive Team is relied upon for virtually every type of legal service required by automotive suppliers, and their work involves important matters in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Butzel Long was centrally involved in establishing the American automotive industry at the beginning of the 20th Century. Today, our Global Automotive Team is shaping the manner in which the industry's disputes are resolved and transactions are accomplished. And we are profoundly involved in restructuring the industry, including its most significant acquisitions and divestitures, workouts and bankruptcies, technological developments and general commercial transactions.

Our Global Automotive Team includes seasoned veterans of the industry, and each member is a front-running expert in his or her field. They study, analyze, write about, and speak on the automotive industry, and their viewpoints are frequently sought by the national and international media that covers the industry.

Lead counsel in over 150 litigation actions on behalf of major tier 1 automotive supplier.

Commercial counsel for automotive companies

Obtained a $7.25 million settlement for German automotive corporation in connection with acquisition of a piston manufacturing company

Negotiation of complex Settlement Agreement with an OEM of claims arising under long-term Supply Agreement

Negotiated a settlement agreement for a major auto supplier with an OEM resulting in $40,000,000 in payments to the supplier, deal also included commitment by OEM to provide significant additional future business to supplier

Negotiated settlement for a Tier 1 supplier with OEM resulting in sizeable financial payment to supplier and long-term future business commitment

Lead counsel in negotiating and developing extended OEM warranties and back-up insurance policies.

Negotiation of Complex Supply Agreements for major Tier 1 automotive suppliers with OEMs

Drafted Terms and Conditions for numerous leading Tier 1 and other automotive suppliers

National counsel for the defense of ABS and Rollover Protection System cases for several leading suppliers.

Lead counsel in negotiating and developing extended OEM warranties and back-up insurance policies

Counsel to the OESA Chief Purchasing Officers' Council.

Represented an automotive fasteners company in a disposition merger

Automotive Company Litigation

Served as court-appointed Commercial & Litigation Counsel for major automotive supplier

Lead supplier counsel on several bet-the-farm OEM/Tier 1 warranty and recall disputes with demands ranging from $25 to $125 million

Negotiation of a Complex Supply Agreement for major Tier I Automotive Supplier with an OEM; included subsidies and exit provisions

BUTZEL LONG

We would be pleased to communicate with you by email, but contacting us in this fashion does not create an attorney-client relationship between you and the firm. If you are not a current client of Butzel Long, please do not include any information in this email that you or someone else considers to be confidential or secret in nature. Prior to the establishment of a lawyer-client relationship through written agreement, unsolicited emails from non-clients containing confidential or secret information cannot be protected from disclosure.